false 8647 9 Bean's past was a battle just to survive. He first appeared on the streets of Rotterdam, a tiny child with a mind leagues beyond anyone else. He knew he could not survive through strength; he used his tactical genius to gain acceptance into a children's gang, and then to help make that gang a template for success for all the others. He civilized them, and lived to grow older. Then he was discovered by the recruiters for the Battle School. For Earth was at war -- a terrible war with an inscrutable alien enemy. A war that humanity was near to losing. But the long distances of interstellar space has given hope to the defenders of Earth -- they had time to train military geniuses up from childhood, forging them into an irresistible force in the high-orbital facility called the Battle School. That story is told in two books, the beloved classic Ender's Game, and its parallel, Ender's Shadow. Bean was the smallest student at the Battle School, but he became Ender Wiggins' right hand. Since then he has grown to be a power on Earth. He served the Hegemon as strategist and general in the terrible wars that followed Ender's defeat of the alien empire attacking Earth. Now he and his wife Petra yearn for a safe place to build a family -- something he has never known -- but there is nowhere on Earth that does not harbor his enemies -- old enemies from the days in Ender's Jeesh, new enemies from the wars on Earth. To find security, Bean and Petra must once again follow in Ender's footsteps. They must leave Earth behind, in the control of the Hegemon, and look to the stars. 4088 book 2000 Shadow of the Giant (Shadow Series, Book 4) total:4935|5:1271|4:1936|3:1376|2:304|1:48| 4935 18883 6417 165 4 1 false false Sat Nov 10 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Wed Mar 26 19:32:50 -0700 2008 Wed Mar 26 19:33:36 -0700 2008 more...]]> 3 2 false false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Thu Feb 07 22:05:47 -0800 2008 Thu Feb 07 22:24:37 -0800 2008 Lots of war games, strategy. You get to find out what happens to Bean and Petra and the rest of Ender's Jeesh as all the nations of Earth use the wonder kids to try to tear each other apart. Interesting insight on Islam (from, um, a Mormon?). You get to...more...]]> 4 1 false false Fri Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Thu Sep 13 18:48:47 -0700 2007 Wed Dec 17 15:45:42 -0800 2008 more...]]> 4 1 false false Wed May 06 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Jul 02 17:01:15 -0700 2008 Tue May 12 18:08:43 -0700 2009
Peter becomes a likable character, which is a complete ...more...]]> 3 0 false true Tue Aug 11 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Aug 12 07:57:22 -0700 2009 Wed Aug 12 08:01:56 -0700 2009 1
I have to say that I was ...more...]]> 3 0 false false Thu Apr 02 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Mar 25 16:05:38 -0700 2009 Thu Apr 02 16:35:01 -0700 2009 The reason I decided on a 3, was the ending. I'm the type of person who likes every story to end...more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sun Dec 14 00:08:12 -0800 2008 Sun Dec 14 00:08:12 -0800 2008
You have all the Battle School grads actually starting to carve up the world and make a name for themselves and change their environment. You have a caliph who unites the muslim world, a Emperor who stages a coop in China, and you...more...]]> 3 1 false false Wed Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sat Aug 25 13:41:57 -0700 2007 Mon Sep 03 19:24:30 -0700 2007 more...]]> 3 0 false false Fri Mar 27 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Mar 24 10:51:57 -0700 2009 Sat Mar 28 21:26:40 -0700 2009
I mostly read the rest of the Shadow books for complet...more...]]> 4 0 false false Fri Dec 12 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Fri Dec 12 01:16:53 -0800 2008 Fri Dec 12 01:16:53 -0800 2008 I was happy to get back to Bean's life (Speaker for the was so WEIRD! but I liked it).
I think one of the things I like so much about this series is how complexly interwoven they are, especially considering the time lines and th...more...]]> 5 1 false false Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2005 Thu Jul 26 16:23:10 -0700 2007 Thu Jul 26 16:24:49 -0700 2007
My favorite part was probably when Bean thought to himself -
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OK, I had to get that out of my system. Back to the beginning. The paean to parenthood that is this series continues to get weirder as Petra and Bean wrench their stolen embryos, at this point newborn babies, from their birth parents...more...]]> 4 0 false false Fri Jul 04 15:20:23 -0700 2008 Thu Jun 26 14:52:41 -0700 2008 Fri Jul 04 15:20:23 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Aug 23 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue May 20 20:23:49 -0700 2008 Sun Aug 23 05:16:15 -0700 2009 1
This quote is misleading in that it does not remotely express the essence of this book. But I liked it an...more...]]> 4 0 false true Tue Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon May 05 14:35:18 -0700 2008 Mon May 05 14:56:53 -0700 2008

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